Elliott Bristow's Super 8 Film Diary
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Color Sings |
Dinosaur Gas |
Clear to the Coast |
Home in October |
Season of Silence |
Fried Dreams |
Read the article about Elliott Bristow by Aidan O'Rourke, and go to the Weblog for current Production Notes, Anecdotes, Comments, Visitor Stories and Super 8 Info. Click on any of the four discs at the top of this page for music and more films. You can also try your hand at the Location Quiz.
| The images in the slide show are freeze frames taken from the Road Dreams film diary. I didn't take all that many photographs during my film diary days, partly because lugging two cameras around is just too much effort (and certainly encumbering where a swift response is required), but also because I'm aware that I tend to use the movie camera rather like a still camera. | ![]() Click for slide show. | That is, the response is mainly to single scenes rather than a developing sequence. It's more like building a collection of moving photographs. Of course, these individual shots have to be strung together in order to develop movie momentum, but that's a separate task. In the meantime, away from the film editing timeline, it does seem appropriate to present these images as stills. |
The RetroRoadTrips DVD (featuring 13 short road trip films) will be ready in early 2008 (please see Production Notes in the Weblog), and Codachrome - a time of road dreams will be issued as soon as possible after that (summer 2008 is the intended release date). Codachrome is a natural development of the earlier Road Dreams television series from 1989 and will be issued as a DVD feature, incorporating original music by Rik Loveridge, François Godefroy and Richie Gilks, who all contributed to the Road Dreams soundtrack.
For more information, see the Retro Road Trips Weblog or contact Elliott Bristow by using one of the methods listed on the Contact Page. Please note: this site uses Statcounter software to help determine which pages are visited most frequently and to shape the website accordingly.